Re: A critique of the BBC aquatic ape programme and the transcript.


Jois wrote:
> "mclark" <biteme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:xHR1f.113562$3S5.56684@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > "Algis Kuliukas" <algis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1128761882.394906.240300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > JAE wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > "I suspect you 'got' this point straight away but, in typical sulky
> > child style you have had to pretend I'm saying things against you
> > in order to gain some 'consolation points' in another debate that you
> > have, again, clearly lost." Algis Kuliukas 10/8/2005
> >
> > The "energizer bunny" of wet apes. He just keeps going and
> > going and going and going......
> > I'm keeping this one, Doofus Boy. :-)
> >
> > --
> > "You might be right but, people shouldn't buy it unless you can
> > *demonstrate* it through logical reasoning and/or evidence and I just
> > don't think . . .." ---Algis Kuliukas 08/14/05
> >
>
> > "I suspect you 'got' this point straight away but, in typical sulky
> > child style you have had to pretend I'm saying things against you
> > in order to gain some 'consolation points' in another debate that you
> > have, again, clearly lost." Algis Kuliukas 10/8/2005
> >
>
> Geeze, I was still laughing while you scooped this one up. Is that fair?
>
> And have we been fair to Algis? Has anyone explained to Algis that you don't
> win or lose in science? That science isn't a debate? Holy Cow! This could
> be why he is dead wrong about everything.

No, Algis is dead wrong in just about everything because he's about the
most incompetent student of evolutionary biology I've ever seen, unable
to discern that what he believes about vestigial characteristics isn't
based on any understanding of evolutionary biology, but merely his own
pronouncements. Since he's an incompetent student who managed to get a
master's degree (UCL really ought to be embarassed but I'll not rule
out that it was deemed the easiest way to get rid of him) without
knowing what genetic drift was, now without seeming to understand that
humans retain a brachiator's shoulder though we are not presently
brachiators. His knowledge of a field he claims to be studying is on
par with a B or C undergrad student, yet he speaks with the certainty
of his convictions that can only come from religious conviction. I
suspect that deep down, part of the problem is that he's just not very
smart.

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